---
type: "Bill"
title: "Persons with developmental disabilities; terminology."
description: "Corrects numerous sections of the Code of Virginia by replacing the term \"intellectual disability\" with \"developmental disabilities\" as appropriate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1775"
citation: "Virginia HB 1775 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Health", "Persons with Disabilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b12eab86-f7e9-4bb3-9c55-3312fe10e8ca"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1775"
source_hash: "a24c238c081bc1ece993615dbd3d28cf20ca8e425a13dca554532be5285189d8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1775 (2017) — Persons with developmental disabilities; terminology.

Corrects numerous sections of the Code of Virginia by replacing the term "intellectual disability" with "developmental disabilities" as appropriate.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0458)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1775ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1775ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101368D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1775)

## Votes

- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101368D `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 458 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b12eab86-f7e9-4bb3-9c55-3312fe10e8ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).